Why Nick Fuentes Divides Audiences — and How to Watch His Interview With Succession Star Dasha Nekrasova

Well, this is a crossover I did not have on my 2025 bingo card: an HBO actor chatting for two and a half hours with one of the internet’s most infamous far-right figures — and then the episode vanishing from YouTube after the backlash. Here’s what happened and where that interview ended up.

The setup: who Fuentes is and why people care

Nick Fuentes has been a lightning rod online for years, not because of talent or charm, but because he pushes white supremacist talking points and conspiracy junk. He first popped on a lot of radars back in 2017 when he said he got threats after attending the violent Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. Since then, he’s built an audience by leaning hard into the so-called 'white genocide' trope and blaming Jewish people for political problems. By 2025, his combined social following had topped 700,000, per the ADL.

Enter: Dasha Nekrasova

Dasha Nekrasova — best known for HBO’s Succession and A24’s Materialists — hosted Fuentes on her podcast Red Scare, which she co-hosts with Anna Khachiyan and has been doing since 2018. The episode hit YouTube about a month ago on the show’s channel. It ran over two and a half hours and, oddly, it was mostly audio.

Nekrasova said the upload was mostly audio because of 'technical problems'.

That length and that guest combo sparked exactly the kind of reaction you’re imagining. The conversation, according to multiple accounts, waded into ugly stereotypes about minority groups and tossed out disturbing comments about the Holocaust and immigration. As clips circulated among industry folks, the blowback came fast.

How it blew up (and where it landed)

• The long interview goes up on YouTube about a month ago on Red Scare’s channel.
• View count climbs past 220,000 before the controversy boils over, per Deadline.
• After the backlash, the YouTube upload gets pulled.
• The full episode is still up on Rumble — a platform that tends to host videos removed or flagged on mainstream sites — under the title 'Nick Fuentes Interview on Red Scare w/ Dasha Nekrasova & Anna Khachiyan'.

So, should you watch it?

If you’re curious what all the noise is about, Rumble is currently the only place with the full version. Just know what you’re walking into: it’s long, mostly audio, and it platformed someone known for extremist rhetoric. It’s also a wild move for a working HBO actor — and yes, it played out exactly as messy as that sounds.